I created Arkline in 1995 in England. Its official opening in
February 1996 took place at the Cyberspy cafe in Soho, London and was reported
by the Jewish Chronicle, the Jerusalem
Report and various other magazines both in Israel
and abroad.

At first it ran off servers in London, but less than a year later I was
requested to remove it from those servers because already so many people
were accesing it every minute that it was blocking access to other companies
using the servers. Today it runs from the USA although it is operated from
Israel. This is because those servers offer the fastest response time available.

Hundreds of Jewish singles worldwide have met their match on
Arkline and below are some extracts from email received from the lucky
ones.

Arkline was created at a very sad time in my life. A few months
earlier my son was kidnapped and murdered by Hamas terrorists in Israel
as he returned home from his army base. After that I left Israel and returned
to England where I was born and during the year I spent there I created
a memorial website with Arik's poetry.
Later I looked for something to attract people to see the site. I tried
to imagine what Arik would have liked, something in the spirit of his philosophy
of life and I remembered the strange conversation we had several months
earlier in the car park under Kikar Atarim in Tel-Aviv.

Arik was smoking and I had asked him to stop, Yiddisher mother
after all! He laughed and said that as he was going to die in the army
anyway he wanted to enjoy all that life offered while he could. Upset I
said that he shouldn't even say that and that I would die if anything happened
to him. He replied that I wouldn't die at all and that I would live and
be happy and have a good life.

A very strange thing happened then and I could almost hear a
voice in my ear warning me to tell him not to take lifts from anyone. We
argued about this and he told me that he only took lifts from religious
people. This surprisingly got me very very upset and I started to shout
- don't take lifts from religious people. Sadly he didn't listen and several
months later Arab terrorists dressed as religious settlers kidnapped him.

But our conversation that day did not end there, we were talking
about what he would do when he left the army and he told me that he knew
that he would head a large international organisation that would one day
help people all over the globe. People will search for it all over the
world he said. I laughed at the absurdity of it. Strangely today people
search for Arkline on internet computers from all corners of the world,
from Alaska to Zimbabwe there are visitors to the website.

Over the years I have spent a lot of effort to create a website
that is as user friendly and as effective as possible in helping people
to find someone to love. You too can help Arkline, tell your friends about
the site, let Jewish singles in your area know about it and where possible
help others who do not have computer access to use the site. Your kindness
will be rewarded, sometimes faster than you expect. One of our successes
is a girl who told an ex-boyfriend about the site. He told friends and
one of them joined and met the ex-girlfriend - life can be like that.

Enjoy Arkline, bookmark it to return and see the new people
every few weeks and do visit Arik's poetry pages before you leave.

Thanks to you I found the woman of my dreams and married her on April
6, 1999. Please remove my files from your computer database. Please feel
free to use me as a reference for your outstanding service.

Sincerely, Stewart Gorenstein

******

Hi!
As I have now found a girlfriend, who located me via your web page, and
things are going quite well, could you please remove me from the page :)
Jonathan , Spacecraft Engineering consultant, Darmstadt ,Germany.
thanks a lot
Jonathan

*****
Good Morning Rebecca,

I wonder if you can remove me from the list as I have met someone. Thank
you for your wonderful service, and Hag Sameah.

Falisa

*****

Dear Rebecca,

I would like to remove my ad as fortunately I found already what I was
looking for many many years. Your web worked for me in the most wonderful
and fastest way.

My ad is in the 30's age group, Leah .

Thanks, Leah
*****

Jeffrey , Dallas, Texas
was married in Las Vegas yesterday, 4 March 1999.

To a nice Jewish woman, he found on the internet, upon returning from Israel
2
years ago.

Jeff

*****

Rebecca,

Thanks to your site I've found the man I was looking for.

So can you please remove my description from the list.

Sincerely,

Vanessa
*****

Please delete me from the Arkline service as I have met somebody.

Member Cathy - 0867

Thank you.

Cathy
*****

Hi !
I'm Eugene, member #0589. I'd like to thank you for all what you did
for me. Fortunately I've found my second half and I'd like to delete my
profile. Thanks a lot.

*****

Dear Rebecca,

Thank you for offering people a chance to meet other people. I had no
idea that it could work. But for me: it worked. I met a wonderful woman
on arkline (we both were on your web page) and we want to get married.

Can you please delete my (personal)details from your web site and make
sure that they will not be shown to people anymore.

My details are:
Mr. Tswie (0699)

In real: Tswie
The Netherlands.
*****

Hi Rebecca,
Happy hanuakah.
I want you to knwo that I appreciated using the Arkline.
It truly works because I met a wonderful girl from Brazil.wow
and yes it is serious.. soI am requesting that you remove my name from
your
services and again thank you for everything..
enjoy Hanuacah and I miss you all th ebst in the New Year!
Shalom
Bob
*****

Hello, Rebecca!

I've met someone very special whom I'm seeing exclusively. Therefore,
would you kindly remove my name from the single women?

I've enjoyed the Ark immensely, and highly recommend it to other Jewish
singles. Many thanks!

Eta
*****

Please can you remove me from your list as I have met someone and am
getting engaged this week
Many thanks and all the best
Geoff

*****

Rebecca Shalome,
I wish to thank you all at Arkline. I have found a wonderful woman. I
ask to be removed from your very professional and efective opperation.
Once again, thank you all so much,(and I hope we don't work together
again!!!!)
Phillip 0651
Upper Galilee
*****

Hi. First I want to wish you a Happy and Healthy New Year. The second thing
is
will you please remove my name from the profiles. I have found someone
on your
arkline that I responded to and we seem to be hitting it off. And since
no one
responded to mine -I guess I don't need it. I want to thank you for your
services and I hope this works out. Again Happy New Year.
Pam (41- speech pathologist)